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API Testing: Challenges and Best Practices

Taking service oriented-architecture (SOA)'s "building block" approach to the next level, application programming interfaces (APIs) have become a hugely popular strategy for bringing services to a broad base of customers across the world-wide development ecosystem.

But this extreme exposure of services as APIs gives rise to four unique challenges:

A significantly increased attack surface area

High potential for unintentional or malicious misuse

The need to provide API consumers a test environment

And exceptionally unpredictable demand.

Read this white paper to discover:

Why many SOA testing strategies are equally effective for API testing that addresses these four challenges

How to leverage and extend the core tenets of SOA testing to ensure that your APIs are built to survive the extreme they'll face "in the wild"

And five API testing "must haves".

Vendor:

Parasoft Corporation

Posted:

31 Jan 2013

Published:

31 Jan 2013

Format:

PDF

Length:

5 Page(s)

Type:

White Paper

Language:

English

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